Charles Darwin

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Standard Name: Darwin, Charles

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Literary responses George Eliot
This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878.
Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. Cambridge University Press.
119-23
Not all recognitions brought pleasure. A reference work called Men of the Time...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
Mary Russell Mitford wrote disapprovingly of HM 's claims: I see no good in these experiments.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 281
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 's pamphlet Mesmerism: A Letter to Miss Martineau, argued that if the account...
Literary responses L. S. Bevington
The collection enjoyed great success in scientific circles. Charles Darwin read it, an unusual honour since he had not opened a volume of verse for fifteen years.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
9: 228
Its reception in literary circles was...
Material Conditions of Writing Constance Naden
CN wrote a letter on this date thanking for a favourable review. The Story of Claricewas written during her convalescence, after a sharp attack of illness, in 1886, just as other poems dated from...
Occupation Herbert Spencer
Through his publications, such as Social Statics, Principles of Psychology, First Principles, and The Principles of Ethics, he founded evolutionary philosophy, an ethical system that expounded individualism. Its application of the...
Other Life Event Isabella Hamilton Robinson
After the scandal, those involved returned to lives of relative anonymity. The impact on Edward Lane 's professional life was negligible. He continued to recieve patients at Moor Park (among them Charles Darwin ), and...
politics Frances Power Cobbe
The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords , her bill was countered in the...
Publishing Julia Wedgwood
JW published The Boundaries of Science in Macmillan's Magazine: a critique of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary thinking which was admired by Darwin (her uncle by marriage).
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. “Introduction”. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed by Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle, Frederick A. Stokes, p. vii - xxiii.
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Wedgwood, Julia. “The Boundaries of Science”. Macmillan’s Magazine, pp. 134-8.
Publishing Mathilde Blind
After this MB published, in 1872, a selected edition of Shelley 's poems with a memoir, and in 1886 a fourteen-page, privately printed pamphlet entitled Shelley 's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin 's.
Publishing Charlotte Brontë
She started with Henry Colburn . After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co. .
The firm was the publisher...
Publishing Frances Power Cobbe
FPC wrote on a remarkable range of topics which provoked lively responses. Her piece on canine consciousness in the Quarterly Review in 1872 drew an expression of admiration from Darwin , and she published anecdotes...
Publishing Constance Naden
William R. Hughes counted twenty-one shorter publications by CN from 1881 onwards, mostly in journals under the signatures of Constance Arden, C.N., or unusually Constance C.W. Naden. They begin with Hylo-Zoism v...
Reception Jane Austen
JA 's early admirers among her fellow women writers constituted a small, select band. They included Sarah Harriet Burney , Anne Grant , Mary Ann Kelty , Maria Callcott , Maria Jane Jewsbury , Harriet Martineau
Textual Features May Kendall
Kendall and Lang use the genre of social satire to introduce significant debates between science and the supernatural, of a kind which recur throughout her poetry. These debates are often staged between men and creatures...
Textual Features Antoinette Brown Blackwell
ABB opposes Clarke's argument, and also criticizes Charles Darwin 's and Herbert Spencer 's understanding of the roles of the sexes. She uses the scientific method here, writing in the style of her male contemporaries...

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